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Two of the state's smaller retirement systems reported their investment returns for the past fiscal year, with one for highway employees hitting 16.2 percent and another for the judicial branch earning 8.23 percent, according to their officials. The investments of the state Highway Employees Retirement System reached $1.47 billion in fiscal 2018, which ended June 30. By comparison, the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System has an investment portfolio of about $17 billion, and the Arkansas Public Employees Retirement System has a portfolio of about $9 billion.
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ConnectOne Bancorp and First Federal Bancshares of Arkansas are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership and risk. ConnectOne Bancorp has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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Hampton Inn & Suites in west Little Rock sold for almost $12 million to a Lonoke limited liability company last month. HISLR 5 LLC paid almost $12 million for the 126-unit hotel at 1301 S. Shackleford Road in Little Rock.
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A judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against a real estate firm from the family of a central Arkansas woman who was kidnapped and murdered while working there, ruling that it missed the statute of limitations by three days. The wrongful-death suit, filed Sept.
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March's decline was the biggest drop in 44 months, since it also fell 3.4 percent in August 2014. But the reason for the fall was attributed to the fact that March sales a year ago were so strong, Michael Pakko, chief economist at the Arkansas Economic Development Institute at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, said Friday.
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National Headlines

Grunge rock icon Courtney Love was known to trash a hotel room in her nineties hey-day, and she just put her neglected Washington State home on the real estate market for $319K. According to Variety , the listing for the 54-year-old Golden Globe nominee's two-story fixer-upper in rural Olympia humorously indicates that it's in need of 'everything.'
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On Tuesday, the McLean, Virginia-based company announced a revamped Savor card with the highest cashback percentage in the industry for both dining and entertainment. "It's really targeted at anyone who enjoys food and enjoys experiences," said Lauren Liss, Capital One vice president of U.S. Cards.
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A rise in mortgage, auto loan, and credit card balances drives a record amount of post-financial-crisis consumer debt. If consumers are holding record amounts of debt, is that good or bad for the U.S. economy? Surely, intelligent economists could occupy both sides of the debate.
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Royal Bank of Scotland will pay a 4.9 billion US dollar fine to settle allegations it misrepresented the types of mortgages it sold to investors during the housing bubble that ultimately led to the 2008 financial crisis. The US Justice Department said in a statement that the penalty is the largest it has imposed for financial crisis-era misconduct at a single company.
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A search analytics firm has found that the number of online searches for payday loans far outranked mortgage-related queries over the past year in Canada. New data from SEMrush shows that payday loans came in first out of 10 different types of loans, garnering an average search volume of 29,000 a month on search engines such as Google.
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